Welcome Back To The Hootenanny Power Pages, Folk and Roots Music Playlist, and Coming Events in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas. The Hootenanny Power radio show, since 1981 WRKF Public Radio Baton Rouge. The live audio stream may be heard via computer, Saturday nights, 9 pm to midnight central time, at www.wrkf.org, or on the airwaves at 89.3

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Mipso will be playing in the Baton Rouge area around Fri. March 23, 2018. For information on their tour schedule, their website is:

Greetings everyone - We've had so many questions about upcoming performances that it seems the right time to send this announcement. We have three upcoming shows books and hope you'll mark you calendar for them:

APRIL 7, 2018 -- LOUISIANA TARTAN FESTIVAL (http://scottishsociety.wixsite.com/tartan-festival) at Scotland Farms in Minden, Louisiana. A small outdoor festival for the whole family centered on Scottish heritage and culture. Smithfield Fair will be concentrating on our Scottish repertoire and there is so much to do there. Check their website for directions and the schedule.

MAY 11, 2018 -- A-TOWN EVENINGS (http://www.louisiana-arts.org/performing-arts-series.php) a 7:00 p.m. concert series in downtown Alexandria in an intimate and fun setting with Smithfield Fair playing favorites from our original song catalog. This year our performance will be in the lobby at Coughlan-Saunders Performing Arts Center with tickets $15 in advance.

We're still working out the details for a June show in Baton Rouge and we'll let you know how that goes.

JULY 20-21, 2018 -- LOUISIANA FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL (https://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/2018-natchitoches-nsu-folk-festival/) at Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches. The schedule hasn't been posted yet, but this is an amazing festival celebrating varying aspect of Louisiana culture and the theme this year is "Celebrating Louisiana's Folk Roots". We'll be performing a blend of traditional songs and tradition-based songs with connections to Louisiana culture.

Also, remember that our albums are available at all performances and from the kiosk to CDBaby on the Smithfield Fair website. Bob, Jan and I look forward to sharing our music with you and visiting with you. All the best….dbs

Reckless Kelly tomorrow...

On Sunday, March 18 at 7pm we host RECKLESS KELLY for a full band show at the Dragon. The boys played with us last month and we had to turn away customers. So we set up this second show. VIP seats sold out quickly, but we still have some regular seats......and there ain't a bad seat in a place as small as the Dragon! Remaining seats are $60 each and are available atrecklesskellydragon2.brownpapertickets.com

Our buddy BILL ROMANO opens! Get em while they last!!

Vance Gilbert on March 24....

His good friend and opening artist for the evening is our good friend GINA FORSYTH! This is one helluva show, but folks just don't know Vance's work in our area. We are going to change that! This show is a gift to my wife. Vance put on Liz's favorite shows at FOLK ALLIANCE and we have always wanted him to come to Baton Rouge. That will finally happen on Sat, March 24 at 8pm. Reg seats are $20, VIPs are $30 and the ticket link isvancegilbertdragon.brownpapertickets.com

Dyson House Listening Room (a 501c3 nonprofit organization) needs your help to raise $20,000 to make updates to bring the building up to standards for hosting and providing for those patrons with mobility issues. Help us get back in the house by May 1, 2018. Please help us in any way you can - no amount is too small!

Sunday bluegrass jams held in different locations. We are confirming the jam time and place by text message to your cell phone, if we have your number. So, send us your cell number for text messaging, if you desire to have up-to-the-hour info on jam attendance etc.

Les Kerr has a new blog about the musical connection between Nashville and New Orleans. From Louis Armstrong’s collaboration with Jimmie Rodgers to Del McCoury playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the connection continues at:

"Though it's impossible to pinpoint a particular moment when immigrants began inventing American music, a dramatic turning point surely occurred in 1804, the year a young nation made the Louisiana Purchase. President Thomas Jefferson sought to buy from the French just the city of New Orleans, because of its crucial value as a port. But a cash-strapped Napoleon sold the entire, still-uncharted Louisiana Territory for $15 million — roughly 4 cents an acre. In a single stroke, America became a thrilling, noisy eruption of sound."

My name is Rebecca Sharky. I am the GM of Cafe Des Amis in Breaux Bridge, LA. I'd like for Cafe Des Amis to be considered as an alternative non-smoking venue to your folk friends. If you have any suggestions, please email me.

"I have been affected by secondhand smoke. I remember one night I was playing in a club and I went to hit a high note and I almost blacked out on stage. I had to hold the microphone to keep from falling down. There was so much smoke in the place that it had a negative impact on my singing."

Music selections from audio collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Southern Folklife Collection are now being streamed online. Visitors can tune in to channels that feature music in five genres: old-time music; country and bluegrass; folk revival; rhythm, blues, and boogie; and the eclectic “SFC Mix.” The purpose of our radio stream is to make our holdings available for educational use.

When the song of the angel is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flocks, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among brothers, To make music in the heart.

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NOTE TO PERFORMERS:

This website is updated Saturdays, before the Hootenanny Power radio show at 9 pm on WRKF. Please don't wait until Monday or Tuesday after the radio show to send me info on a performance that coming Friday. It definitely won't make the show, and probably won't make the website. tlcaffery at yahoo dot com